Website Security and Maintenance

There are several ways for you to scan your WordPress site for potentially malicious or unwanted code or threats. Ranging from both free and paid tools. This should be done on a regular basis. Theme Authenticity Checker is a free plugin that does the job really well. Usually, hackers target themes to inject links, so this plugin is a good way of checking for that. Exploit Scanner is another free WordPress plugin that is much more robust since it searches all files and databases of your WordPress install.

It checks for signs which may suggest your installation has fallen prey to malicious hackers. Sucuri is arguably the best WordPress website security scanner at the moment. They have a very basic free site scanner, which checks your site to see if your site is doing well. But the real deal is in their paid version.

You can gain access to your WordPress anywhere, anytime, anyplace. Create a new user profile assigned to the administrator role, log back in with the new user profile and DELETE the admin file. It can’t be said strongly enough: use strong passwords for WordPress and any other site which requires passwords. Use an online password generator.

Also, you have the ability to back up your site regularly and keep a copy on your computer and off-site storage. If you have a very active site, back up daily. You spend a lot of time and money on your website, don’t skip this! The one complete solution that does it all is BackupBuddy, no other plug-ins back up your files, widgets, plugins, and database. Need to move your site to another host, this will do it in less than a few minutes!

You can easily put in place an Automated Disaster Recovery Plan in WordPress. In the event of a disaster, like your site getting hacked, hardware failure, or, your hosting provider goes offline, without a disaster recovery plan it’s a frustration galore.

Having a Disaster Recovery Plan means that all the decisions have already been made in a calm non-disaster environment and so all you have to do in the event is to just follow your plan.

Having an Automated Disaster Recovery allows you quickly and easily determines whether you actually have a disaster and, if so, what type of disaster it is.

You can easily put in place an Automated Disaster Recovery Plan in WordPress. In the event of a disaster, like your site getting hacked, hardware failure, or, your hosting provider goes offline, without a disaster recovery plan it’s a frustration galore.

Having a Disaster Recovery Plan means that all the decisions have already been made in a calm non-disaster environment and so all you have to do in the event is to just follow your plan.

Having an Automated Disaster Recovery allows you quickly and easily determines whether you actually have a disaster and, if so, what type of disaster it is.

This eliminates the need for a webmaster or technical web guru. WordPress has a great admin section that is easy to use where you can control everything. WordPress is also easy to set up or install (one click) and maintain. Inside most decent hosting providers, they rarely exceed one to three-click installation.